Yesterday we went to the "Eden Project" which was absolutely fantastic. It has amazing range of "biomes" which are made of a remarkable clear plastic which can support the weight of a car and which weighs approximately 1% of the equivalent dimensions in glass. It is made of Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene--I'm sure you've heard of it. These remarkable structures serve as rooves and they are very interesting aesthetically from within and from without. The project is really all about sustainability and it is not there to give people a guilt trip, but rather to stimulate thought in the way we live and use our (finite) resources. I personally found it very moving to see the ENORMOUS interest which it has generated. It was the closest thing to a spiritual experience that I've had--much more so than any experiences I've had in synagogue which usually result in me virtually falling asleep!!! The temperature and humidity is all carefully controlled. There is the tropical rainforest biome and the Mediterranean biome. There were some absolutely amazing plants , foods, vegetables etc. The five staples of the world are wheat, maize, potato, rice and beans.
To sustain ourselves we ate smoked mackerel on toast with a cream cheese and horseradish sauce accompanied by beet root--delicious! Later on we had dessert--gorgeous ice cream made with clotted cream--what else?
I had hazelnut/coconut and boabab seeds--very nice quite interesting. If you've read "le petit prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry you'll know of the boabab tree.
Later after further exploration we decided to have dinner there in the Mediterranean biome. We had delicious pizzas topped with Cornish Stilton, balsamic caramelised shallots, potato and rosemary and finished with rocket. Unreal. Then as we had already had a double cone of ice cream before, we decide to restrain ourselves and share a dessert. Three scoops of ice cream--no I lie....two scoops (chocolate and caramel) and one mango sorbet. Of course the sorbet contains no clotted cream so we actually lost weight!!!
It was a great day and I think a highlight for both of us.
It's 7.30 and we've booked for dinner (2nd time) at Salamander restaurant in Mevagissey where we're staying....be back to tell you about our day a little later.
Today we ate are rather lavish lunch and dinner really too much, but we won't be doing that everyday.
Went to Kingswood Bistro in London Apprentice, St Austell and I had delicious Asian spring rolls filled with a confit de canard and a beautiful Asian salad. Followed by slow cooked roast pork beautifully tender and lovely. The snap peas which accompanied it however needed to be "strung". Such a basic thing....don't know how they can miss it. Ross had a salmon and haddock "pie" with mash which he loved.
In the evening we returned to "Salamander" in Mevagissey. A lovely meal, but I ventured to have the duck. Found it tough....Ross said it wasn't tough (I wanted the truth).....it was firm, but with my condition, tough. Heading towards baby food....I can see it coming. The whole thing pisses me off. I'm having a lovely holiday, but it's impossible to completely ignore the illness. Ross now frequently has to cut my food up.
Tomorrow we head off to Falmouth for a couple of days.
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